> Historically and anthropologically, he's got a point: polygamy is very > strongly correlated with great harm to the status of women and children.
Should that maybe be polygyny specifically? I realize polyandry might also have some bad effect (fraternal polyandry comes to mind, although I couldn't point to a study to say that's fair), but I'm pretty sure that there've been studies showing that children of a poly marriage in a culture that operates with the concept of partible paternity actually tend to do better.
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Date: 2011-11-24 01:47 am (UTC)> strongly correlated with great harm to the status of women and children.
Should that maybe be polygyny specifically? I realize polyandry might also have some bad effect (fraternal polyandry comes to mind, although I couldn't point to a study to say that's fair), but I'm pretty sure that there've been studies showing that children of a poly marriage in a culture that operates with the concept of partible paternity actually tend to do better.
(I may be bogging down in specifics here.)